<div dir="ltr">Testing has already commenced for a while now, just the other day I saw the metro train come into Chatswood, then leave again. It's hard to justify the tracks themselves being in construction when trains are running... In fact I used this justification to change the lines over, but keen to change over the stations.<div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://7news.com.au/politics/nsw/sydney-to-unveil-first-line-of-brand-new-metro-network-after-seven-years-of-work-c-42494">https://7news.com.au/politics/nsw/sydney-to-unveil-first-line-of-brand-new-metro-network-after-seven-years-of-work-c-42494</a> says to open within a month.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/kypros1992/status/1113210299551690752">https://twitter.com/kypros1992/status/1113210299551690752</a> says May 5th.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>With the opening_date key, even if it gets pushed back we can just revise the date. I'm still in the camp that stations and lines can be out of construction even if there are no scheduled services running yet.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 16:40, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 09/04/19 10:13, Andrew Harvey wrote:<br>
> I know TfNSW will not be able to confirm, but rumour out there is the <br>
> Metro will start operating early May.<br>
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> Given this, and that many OSM data consumers rely on offline extracts, <br>
> and given it's accepted practice to only mark things as construction <br>
> when they span months, I'd like to start migrating the tags for the <br>
> Metro over from construction to operational, adding in provisional <br>
> opening_date <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_date" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_date</a><br>
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> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Yes/no?<br>
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How reliable is this 'rumour'?<br>
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Possibly the 'rumour' is when testing will commence.. rather than <br>
regular customer operations?<br>
Report in Aug 2018 said no earlier than 5 th May... so it is possible.<br>
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There .. having said all that it is now certain to start early May:))<br>
Despite that.. I'd not add it until we have official confirmation... <br>
don't want to jinx it.<br>
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